World Drug Report 1997

Publication date: 1997

Publisher: United Nations International Drug Control Programme

Collection: salis; americana

Language: English

169 pages. This report aims to increase the information and understanding about illicit drugs, their effects individually, in society, and internationally. Chapter sections:

1. Recent trends and developments in cultivation, production, trafficking, and consumption--overview.

2. Theories and interpretations of illicit drug use.

3. The health and social consequences of drug use.

4. The illicit drug industry: production, trafficking, and distribution.

5. Drugs and public policy.

6. Strategies and programmes.

7. Country profiles.

Also: synthetic drugs, drug seizures, demand, injecting, initiation, drugs and work, clandestine manufacture, distribution, money laundering, national economies, public policy, international cooperation, regulation-legalization debate, eradication, substitution.